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Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:42:10 -0500
From:	"Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
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To:	Alan Wilson <alan DOT wilson AT wilshire DOT com>
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Learning C/C++
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Alan Wilson wrote:
> >> love to program.. and I lvoe my computer.. and I would love to be able
> >> to program in C/C++ ASAP!    :)
> >You'll have to learn C sufficiently before you even think of C++,
> >however C is easy to learn if you have a couple books and some time to
> >invest.  If you've got any programming experience in BASIC or any
> >other languages then you'll be fairly comfortable with C within 2 - 4
> >weeks.  If not, then it may take a while.
> 
> Is that true??  I would need to learn C before I can program in C++?  I was
> under the impressions that I could skip C.

C++ is just *that*:  C "plus plus".  If it were a completely different
language, then they would have called it D or something.  However, C++
is basically C with a lot of extensions to the language.  Quite a number
of differences can be found between the two languages, however C++ falls
back on C in that any "C" program is also a valid "C++" program.  Thats
probably why they called C++ "C++".  Perhaps a better name for it would
have been "C, but not *just* C, oh no, it's much more, its plus plus
much
more".  Perhaps that is what they were thinking of calling it only they
thought it was a little wordy so they just called it C++.

At any rate, yes, you have to learn C to learn C++.

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